Country Clubs. In 1872 Mr. Judson married Miss Jennie W. Eakin, of Nashville, Tennessee, and has one child, a daughter.

Judson, Winslow, lawyer and promoter of great enterprises, was born February 21, 1845, at Ogdensburg, New York, and died April 7, 1890, at his home in St. Joseph, Missouri. His parents were Roscius W. and Sarah C. Judson, and they were representatives of one of the old and honored families of the Empire State, with ancestry leading back to the very flower of the early days when the country was in its formative period, and names and reputations were being carved out of the fruitful deeds of days burdened with responsibilities and important events. Revolutionary ancestry is easily traced by the living members of the Judson family, and the sturdy stock has been preserved throughout the years that have passed since that early time. Winslow Judson received his primary education in the public schools of the State of New York, attending in the towns where his father resided during the son's boyhood. He later became a student in Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and was graduated from that institution. He then entered the Albany Law School, Albany, New York, and finished the prescribed course within a length of time that demonstrated quick perception and a mental activity far above that possessed by the average young man. He removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1867, and entered upon the practice of law. St. Joseph was the city of his residence from that time until his death. It was as a promoter of great business enterprises that Mr. Judson was best known, and in which capacity he most benefited himself and the city in which his interests rested, and for which he was such an intensely loyal and persistent worker. He was at the head of a number of movements that resulted in the erection of large buildings, the construction of many miles of railroad and the development of a pleasure resort that has since become one of the favorite spots for summer recreation seekers in the west. The board of trade building in St. Joseph, one of the handsomest structures devoted to commerce in that city, is an enduring monument to the enterprise and untiring push of Winslow Judson. The immense shops of the Terminal Railway Company, located

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in St. Joseph, were also erected in response to the unceasing effort made by Mr. Judson to have this prized addition to St. Joseph industry developed into an actual reality. The yards and freight houses of the Terminal Railway Company were also built under his direction and management. Mr. Judson was the man who succeeded in convincing the officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company that they ought to own a line of railway into St. Joseph. He purchased what was then called the St. Joseph & St. Louis Railway, a piece of track running from St. Joseph to Lexington Junction, Missouri. In about the year 1885 this track and right of way were sold to the Santa Fe Company, and that day marked the entrance of another great trunk line into St. Joseph. The accomplishment of this was soon followed by a movement toward the development of the property surrounding Lake Contrary, a beautiful body of water lying southwest of the city of St. Joseph. With the Santa Fe in St. Joseph, Mr. Judson proposed to have the new road extended to that resort, and with that end in view he set about to erect improvements and develop a place that has since become one of the charming inland spots of the country. Mr. Judson was a Democrat in politics, but business claimed him the greater portion of the time and he took little active part in political affairs. He was a Mason and belonged to the Knights Templar as well as to other branches of that order. Mr. Judson was married November 5, 1868, to Miss Emilie C. Carpenter, of St. Joseph, Missouri. To them four children were born: Emily, wife of Charles Roehl, of St. Joseph; Sara, wife of Judge Romulus E. Culver, of St. Joseph; Winslow, a rising young business man of St. Joseph, and Eliza, wife of Robert H. McCord, a prominent business man of Kansas City, and son of James McCord, one of the wealthy pioneer wholesale merchants. of St. Joseph.

Julian, Henry Saint, lawyer and legislator, was born in Franklin County, Kentucky, July 23, 1862. His parents were Alexander Julian, of Huguenot descent, and Elizabeth Chiles Laughlin, of English descent, who emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky about 1800. His grandfather was a surgeon in Washington's army, who, at the

request of Cornwallis, was detailed to minister to the sick and wounded British prisoners at Yorktown. His grandmother was a cousin of Thomas Moore, the poet. Henry S. Julian received his education in the public schools of Frankfort, Kentucky, and at the Kentucky Military Institute, near by, and afterward spent three years at Michigan University. After returning home he read law in the office of Judge Ira Julian, his cousin, at Frankfort, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He practiced his profession one year at Frankfort, and then went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he has had a successful and profitable practice. He began his political career in 1891, when he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature. He introduced and had passed a bill requiring corporations to pay a fair price for their franchises. He also introduced a bill to remove the State University from Columbia to Independence, arguing that modern education required the seats of learning to be near centers where modern ideas are being worked out. He was a leading member of the committee on ways and means, and was the author of a bill to tax franchises. He was again sent to the Legislature in 1895, and was on the committee to revise the election laws, which have worked a marvelous revolution. To prevent the control of conventions by corporations, he advocated that legislators should all have free passes, and that the expenses of conventions should be paid out of the proceeds of the franchise tax. Mr. Julian believes. that lobby influence is corrupting, and introduced a bill to protect the public interests. The gist of this law was that the penalties for accepting bribes should be repealed, and that the laws should be so changed that legislators and public officers could give evidence without incriminating themselves, while those who did the bribing, as well as the officers of the firms or corporations who authorized such acts, should be made accessories before the fact, and if the principal was convicted, he might cut down his term for every accessory he assisted the State in convicting. Though the law was not enacted, it is leaven working in the mass of thought and pointing the way to needed reform. Mr. Julian was a member of the State auditing committee in 1896, and was chief of police of Kansas City for five months. When ques

tioned as to "what knowledge he had of criminals," he replied that "he had spent two terms in the State Legislature." He was distantly related to the late George W. Julian, of Indiana, a noted abolitionist. The Indiana Julians emigrated about 1760 from Virginia to North Carolina, and then to Indiana, and yet the features of our subject show such marked resemblance that he has been taken for a son or a brother of George W. Julian. He is a close student of current literature and a keen observer of men and things, and will be among the men to lead the State and nation in establishing high ideals of public life. He went to Europe in 1893 to gather statistics on governmental subjects, carrying a letter from Secretary Gresham which admitted him to the highest circles. He is a fighter and never flinches from maintaining his convictions. He was a major in the Fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment that was mustered into service at St. Louis in May, 1899, and mustered out at Kansas City, Missouri, November, 1899. It was stationed at Chickamauga during the war. He is unmarried. Politically he is a Democrat.

Julian Law.-A law passed by the Legislature of Missouri in 1895, which provided that the right to use the public highways for street railways should be sold at public auction to the responsible bidder proposing to give the largest percentage yearly of the gross receipts derived from such use and occupation, provided that such payment should in no case be less than 2 per cent of the gross earnings during the first five years. of such occupation and use, and thereafter for each period of five years that such percentage should be increased to correspond with the increase in value of the land thus occupied and used. The law was designed to apply particularly to St. Louis, Kansas City, and other large cities of the State, in which, it was claimed, immensely valuable franchises were being granted to private corporations without proper compensation to the public therefor. The validity of the act was attacked in the courts, and on the 16th of November, 1898, the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, holding it vague, indefinite and obscure in its provisions. The law took its name from its author, Representative Julian, of Kansas City.